Republican through Maoist-era China, 1912–1976
Exhibition Archives
Making the World: Pictures and Science in Modern China University of Alberta
Virtual Museum of the Cultural Revolution created by China News Digest
Image Archives: Library and Academic Institutions
Chinese Torture/Supplis Chinois: Iconographic, Historic, and Literary Approaches of an Exotic Representation Jérôme Bourgon, Institut d'Asie Orientale, ISH Lyon
Cities/Buildings Image Archive University of Washington, Meredith L. Clausen's archive of architectural images from all over the world, including Burma, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet.
Cultural Revolution Anti-Confucius Poster translated by Ken Brashier, Reed College
Cultural Revolution images: "'Serve the People': Daily Life in China During the Cultural Revolution (1972). Professor William A. Joseph, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College
Cultural Revolution Photographs Curated by Thomas Hahn, Cornell University
Gamble Photo Collection Duke University. Approximately 5,000 photographs, primarily of China, 1908–1932. Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968), an avid amateur photographer, began taking pictures in China during his first trip to the country with his family in 1908. He returned three more times between 1917 to 1932 and continued photographing the daily life of Chinese citizens. A sociologist and renowned China scholar, he traveled throughout the country to collect data for social-economic surveys and to photograph urban and rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary, and the countryside.
Gallery of Chinese Propaganda Posters Site curated by theme.
Historical Photographs of China Collaborative project of scholars at the University of Bristol, University of London, and the Institut d'Asie Orientale.
Historical Chinese Postcard Project: 1896–1920. 464 postcards, collected and digitized by the Institut d'Asie Orientale (IAO) in Lyon, France.
Holmes Welch Collection of Military/Wartime Photographs University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Carter D. Holton Collection Rev. Carter D. Holton was an American missionary working in Northwest China from 1923 to 1949. Over 5,000 photos taken by him were digitized by Harvard Yenching Library and can be browsed online.
Hoover Institute’s Online Collections: Asia Stanford University Hoover Institute. Documents political, economic, and social developments during the revolution of 1911, the warlord period, the civil war, and the post-1949 period. Holdings on pre-1949 Republican China, including Nationalist government documents and Chinese Communist Party materials, are particularly robust. Also available are accounts of non-Chinese public servants, military officers, engineers, journalists, and scholars who shaped or witnessed developments in China.
Linglong Women's Magazine Linglong women's magazine, published in Shanghai from 1931 to 1937, was popular during a time of dramatic material, social, and political change in China. Today, the magazine offers researchers a unique glimpse into women's lives in Republican-era (1912–1949) Shanghai. This site features Columbia University's collection of Linglong magazine, one of the most complete holdings outside China.
Propaganda Art Collection Hong Kong Baptist University
Maps of Shanghai Christian Henriot, editor
Online Archive of California. The OAC is a website that provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary source collections (artwork, manuscripts, papers, historic photographs, and so on) maintained by more than 200 libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California -- including collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses.
Rent Collection Courtyard Reed Media Center (digital reproduction of a China Reconstructs 1967 supplement)
Shackford Collection of Photographs of China (University of Hawaii at Manoa). These photographs were taken during the late 1920s and early 1930s by John B. Shackford during his travels and tenure as an English teacher in southern China.
上海年华 Shanghai Memories This mainly image-based database is developed by Shanghai Library. The website contains chronology, image collections of Shanghai and famous actors/actresses, old films, and old film magazines.
Twentieth-Century Posters The Claremont Colleges.
Virtual Shanghai: Shanghai Urban Space in Time Christian Henriot, editor. “A research and resource platform on the history of Shanghai from the mid-nineteenth century to nowadays. It incorporates various sets of documents: essays, original documents, photographs, maps, quantitative data, etc. The objective of the project is to write a history of the city through the combined mobilization of these various types of documents." Collection no longer updated.
Visualising 1850-1950: an interactive resource Visualising China is a JISC-funded project that allows users to explore and enhance more than 8,000 digitized photographs of China taken between 1850 and 1950.
World Digital Library. The World Digital Library is a Library of Congress project sponsored by UNESCO. Items in this digital library, including books, manuscripts, photographs, maps and sound recordings, are individually described and searchable in seven languages. Most countries and regions around the world are represented
Wrath of the Serfs Charlene Makley, Reed College
Image Databases: Nonprofit Organizations and Other Fun Sites
Chinese Posters: Propaganda, Politics, History, Art
Morning Sun A film and website about the Cultural Revolution, Longbow Group
Bibliography and Online Journals
Asian Arts E-journal An online journal for the study and exhibition of Asian art. In addition to full text articles and images of numerous works, this site gives information on associations, galleries and exhibitions relevant to Asian art.
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center contains, among other things, an image archive of 20th-century Chinese culture and bibliographies of mostly English-language materials on modern Chinese literature, film, art, and culture